Folky pharmaceuticals abound in this medicinal reliquary.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

The last fully functional fortress of Germany's World War II Atlantikwall.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

1898 German railroad depot museum with working engines, steam train excursions, and hands-on displays.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

Old batteries and frog skeletons reside in this lakeside monument to Alessandro Volta.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

18th century opera in its original splendor.

80 years of the Battle of Peasholm on a small English lake.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

A fine mixture of the old and the new topped with an art deco neon spire.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

This former Welsh metal factory is now a lovely abandoned relic but was once one of the industry's world leaders.

The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.